Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO Message-ID: <8D8F5660-B420-45D9-902E-13CEA49B53C9@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Polytropon wrote: > I'm searching for something really strange, maybe some reader will > be able to tell me what I'm searching for. :-) > > For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that > has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? > A bit like this. A kind of form-driven screen layout. [ ... ] > The whole library should be accessible via C, or at least for a > shell script. You know, a bit like Tcl/Tk, but in text mode. Consider looking at dialog(3), which rides on top of ncurses. There's also a CLI utility by the same name handy for shell-scripting purposes. Regards, -- -Chuck
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